Kyungil Choi is a Senior Manager and lead backend engineer based in Seoul with 11 years of experience building and managing backend applications. Currently part-leading Tridge's backend division, he combines hands-on engineering with people management to drive delivery of robust services. As a long-time entrepreneur and former product manager, he brings product intuition and startup grit from running CurlyBrace and co-founding Allscape. He contributes to open-source—adding form submission deletion and UI improvements (with tests) to the popular Wagtail CMS—showing attention to both backend logic and user experience. Trained originally in architecture, he applies systems thinking and a design-minded approach to backend architecture and team workflows.
A Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 8 comments in 28 days
Contributions summary:Kyungil implemented features related to form submission deletion within the Wagtail CMS. This involved creating a view function, routing it, and adding a delete button to the submission list interface. They also refactored the code to improve the user interface by modifying the appearance and adding confirmation messages. Furthermore, the user wrote a test case to validate the delete submission view.
Query TypeORM entities with Relay cursor connection
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 5 months
queryrelaytypeormtypeorm-entitiesconnection
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